Entries: An iPad App for Making Wufoo Forms Easier to Fill Out

by Wufoo | March 5, 2012

The fine folks over at Overcommited have created a really neat iPad app called Entries that makes it easier for forms to be filled out on Apple’s tablet. Wufoo forms already look and work well on the iPad out of the box, but Entries takes things a step further by taking advantage iPad-specific controls and redesigning and reformatting the form layout so that it’s catered to the touch experience.

Entries is especially useful for any organizations and teams that both build and fill out their own forms for data entry. Perhaps you are a student who uses Wufoo forms to take notes. Perhaps you take orders or conduct polls in person by filling out a form. Perhaps you are running a conference and plan to gather feedback via a kiosk with an embedded iPad and Wufoo form. Then Entries would be the ideal solution for bringing the magic of Wufoo to your situation.

Big thanks to Harold Emsheimer, Jonathan Younger, and the whole team over at Overcommitted for their excellent work on this app.

For the developer-curious, Entries uses the Login API to make authenticating through Wufoo possible, the Forms API to see the users forms, the Fields API to see the structure, and the Entries API for submitting new form data.

## Giveaway

We’re going to give away a few free copies of the app! To win, just leave a comment below (using your real email, we’ll never publish it) with a little bit about why this app might be useful to you.

Comments

I’m built an app that stitches together over 20 Wufoo forms. While many people will be filling them out online, many of our customers are older and are more comfortable answering questions either in person or over the phone via one of our on-the-go reps. Would be great to make life a little better for those reps that fill these forms out over and over again!

Everyone needs a hug. Well, that, and also we’re obsessed with Wufoo at my company and use it constantly. I travel a lot too and my iPad is my one true companion on the road. We also use our iPads at events for registration and for taking notes. This would help me out a lot!

Using this app would greatly help our business accept application forms that we store in our Wufoo account at events, trade shows and around our campus. We have been looking for ways to reduce our paper use and protecting our member data with an iPad. Great to see a sulution like this, and we appreciate the effort to create this integration!

We would absolutely love this report for work! We use 9 daily reports constantly all day from our iPads that would be very useful! Do you know if you can view reports from this app also if the user has access to them?

Our University’s conference services team currently uses paper (gasp!) forms to collect feedback from attendees due to the challenges of the online form entries. Unfortunately this doesn’t mesh with our greater commitment to sustainability. Entries would be perfect for collecting paperless feedback combined with the efficiency and just-plain-coolness of Wufoo forms.

Love using Wufoo, we use it a ton during the week multiple forms all very easily set up to forward emails to appropriate people automatically depending on field entries. Made my life way easier that hand programming forms for every event/schedule/sign-up or anything we need at church. I have even built full on kiosks using wufoo forms for all kinds of things. Even fuller iPad use would be amazing for our Youth services.

Entries looks fantastic. We have just implemented a number of wufoo forms for customers to evaluate our workshops using iPads in the classroom. Whilst the wufoo forms in the iPad browser are still pretty slick, we work with some techno-challenged clients who aren’t comfortable with the iPad interface. Entries, though, looks much more straight forward. It really turns it into something like a paper form. Beautiful! Just love wufoo and everything you’re doing for us…

This app could be very useful to our ministry s we speak at churches or colleges for people to sign up for additional information or even register for trips. It will be great when we set-up an informational display to have an iPad for sign-up too.

I sit on the board of directors of the Baltimore Area Triathlon Club, a non-profit, 501(c)(7) and I am bringing them online with Wufu’s free survey option. We will use Wufu to solicit member feedback so we can better serve the community and promote multi-sport participation across Maryland. We currently use iPhones and iPads for membership registration at events, and would love to use the same hardware at the events to poll athletes, other triathlon clubs, and community leaders attending the events.

Our tiny budget doesn’t have a lot of wiggle room for technology, and we would greatly benefit from a free copy of the app!

Our company helps college students find jobs and we attend over a hundred job fairs a year. We love using Wufoo’s great ipad app for students to signup at the events. When it gets busy though, we end up having to revert to paper signups because it takes a bit too long to enter in their info. This app looks like a great way to make it even easier to signup. We’re pumped to check it out!

Anything to get beyond the Luddites. Even with some iPad troopers there remains the prospect of filling out Wufoo forms to rate all the films we get for our film festival on the boring old inter-web-tube thing. Your app, on the other hand. Now that is something I can sell to them. I want it, I hear them holler. Now, if I had a copy ready for my iPad 3 TBD on the 16th, then, well, no contest. Looks fab.

We are looking for ways to incorporate the iPads of our team by using wufoo on the go for our information/data collection for home inspections. I’m dying to see if they can make this app have a DRAWING element to it so we could do simple sketches built in with the date, time and other questions/data we need. OMG I think I’d wet my pants if they could or do incorporate the drawing into this. OMG. Did I say I might wet my pants?

Thank you for this. I am traveling to camping shows and wanted to find ways for people to sign up for our mailing list is a good solution as we plan to use the ipad for other ‘kiosk’ type functions. Thanks so much.
God Bless,
Chris

In our district, we currently have implemented roughly 15 different forms that our administration and staff members use on a day-to-day basis. All of our administrators as well as most of our teachers have iPads, so this app would be perfect for us. We will now be able to edit entries easier and more efficiently from anywhere within the district, without having to rely on a computer to do so. Once the district saw what this app can do, I am sure that all of them would want this app. Thanks!

This is such a great idea…. we use woofu to survey our customers at the pub, being able to carry an ipad around to fill out the forms id defiantly alot more streamline rather then carrying the laptop around

We have been working with pronto forms trying to figure out some ways of integrating forms and all. This appears to have what we need to do that. I look forward to working with Wufoo to see. Thanks for the email!

This is awesome, need it for our welllness, at the moment we give paper forms to our clients and its really annoying, for them because its so old fashion, and for us because its really a pain to put those information in our database

I’m developing a reconnaissance form for earthquake professionals to fill out while investigating earthquake disaster regions. Wufoo’s forms allows for standardization across reconnaissance teams, and an ipad app makes it that much easier for a team member to fill out the information on the go. Does the app allow the user to take a photo for a form using the ipad?

I am new to Wufoo but love the ease of use. It makes it easy to create forms for entries, such as ours in the waiting room at the doctor’ offices. The iPad app blends so well with the WuFoo application, and makes it even simpler to enter patient’s data in the waiting room.

We’re excited to hear about the Entries app. In a large church of 2,300, we often assist our congregation with event sign-ups using ipads before and after our multiple services. We look forward to using Entries.

This fantastic because we have an annual symposium at the hospital where I work and also grand rounds and numerous meetings and surveys we constantly need feedback. This will be an extremely useful tool since Ipads are just be introduced as a extremely useful tool in the medical field.

Our techs use bulky old laptops and USB printers to fill out forms and print them for our clients. It would be so much easier on our techs and more professional looking if they could just click on radio buttons to fill out the form and submit the print job wirelessly.

Our multibillion dollar organization is looking to equipt our salesforce with iPads. They need to be able to complete specific forms (we are currently using Wufoo for our form usage) during client meetings. I am leading a pilot program right now and looking to find the best apps to utilize. This would be AWESOME I bet. Are you still giving away the app? I would love to test this out with our pilot program. Thanks!

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